Katherine Demuth

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Katherine Demuth
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  • Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (2017)
  • Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2015)
  • Australian Laureate Fellowship (2013)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/eb6e864a-fdc6-4018-a1d3-bbb796330f1d   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Academic career
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Katherine Demuth is an American professor of linguistics and the director of the Child Language Lab at Macquarie University. [1] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in February 2018, [2] and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FSSA). [1]

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Education and career

She earned a BA from University of New Mexico, and an MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington. [1] [3]

Her early works included work on Bantu languages. [4] [5] [6] [7] At Macquarie University's Child Language Laboratory she and her team study language acquisition and development in children (including the hearing impaired, [8] [9] Mandarin-speaking children, [10] those with mothers suffering depression, [11] [12] and indigenous children [9] [13] ) and continue her work on child language acquisition from Brown University. [14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Academy Fellow: Katherine Demuth". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  2. "Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales 529 NSW Government Gazette No 13 of 6 February 2018 Number 13 Tuesday, 6 February 2018" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  3. Curriculum Vitae
  4. Demuth K (1 February 1990). "Subject, topic and Sesotho passive" (PDF). Journal of Child Language . 17 (1): 67–84. doi:10.1017/S0305000900013106. ISSN   0305-0009. PMID   2312646. Wikidata   Q47345822.
  5. Demuth K (1 June 1993). "Issues in the acquisition of the Sesotho tonal system" (PDF). Journal of Child Language . 20 (2): 275–301. doi:10.1017/S030500090000828X. ISSN   0305-0009. PMID   8376470. Wikidata   Q46872669.
  6. KATHERINE DEMUTH; MARK JOHNSON (1989). "Interaction between Discourse Functions and Agreement in Setawana". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 11 (1). doi:10.1515/JALL.1989.11.1.21. ISSN   0167-6164. Wikidata   Q57262108.
  7. Katherine Demuth; Melissa Kline (September 2006). "The distribution of passives in spoken Sesotho". Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 24 (3): 377–388. doi:10.2989/16073610609486426. ISSN   1727-9461. Wikidata   Q105439818.
  8. Benjamin Davies; Nan Xu Rattanasone; Aleisha Davis; Katherine Demuth (7 December 2020). "Is One Ear Good Enough? Unilateral Hearing Loss and Preschoolers' Comprehension of the English Plural". Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : 1–7. doi:10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00089. ISSN   1092-4388. PMID   33285083. Wikidata   Q104105622.
  9. 1 2 Mridula Sharma; Amelia Darke; Gillian Wigglesworth; Katherine Demuth (22 September 2020). "Dichotic listening is associated with phonological awareness in Australian aboriginal children with otitis media: A remote community-based study". International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology . 138: 110398. doi:10.1016/J.IJPORL.2020.110398. ISSN   0165-5876. PMID   33152986. Wikidata   Q101362550.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  10. "Katherine Demuth". The Conversation. 21 February 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  11. Ruth Brookman; Marina Kalashnikova; Janet Conti; Nan Xu Rattanasone; Kerry-Ann Grant; Katherine Demuth; Denis Burnham (12 December 2020). "Maternal Depression Affects Infants' Lexical Processing Abilities in the Second Year of Life". Brain Sciences. 10 (12). doi: 10.3390/BRAINSCI10120977 . ISSN   2076-3425. PMID   33322798. Wikidata   Q104478316.
  12. Ruth Brookman; Marina Kalashnikova; Janet Conti; Nan Xu Rattanasone; Kerry-Ann Grant; Katherine Demuth; Denis Burnham (3 August 2020). "Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period: An Examination of Infants' Home Language Environment, Vocalizations, and Expressive Language Abilities". Child Development . doi:10.1111/CDEV.13421. ISSN   0009-3920. PMID   32745250. Wikidata   Q98193696.
  13. Mridula Sharma; Gillian Wigglesworth; Gemma Savage; Katherine Demuth (5 October 2019). "Binaural processing and phonological awareness in Australian Indigenous children from the Northern Territory: A community based study". International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology . 128: 109702. doi:10.1016/J.IJPORL.2019.109702. ISSN   0165-5876. PMID   31606681. Wikidata   Q90672867.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  14. "Demuth: Research in Language Acquisition". www.cog.brown.edu. Retrieved 9 March 2021.